Their work on “Off the Wall,” “Thriller,” and “Bad” set records for commercial success and defined the sound of the 1980s.
The producer, who died this week, was at the height of his powers during a legendary three-album run with Jackson.
If anyone knew what it was like to work with Quincy Jones, who died on 3 November at the age of 91, it was Greg Phillinganes.
The music superproducer knew that if you have to find your way to a kind of telepathy with an artist, operating as one mind, ...
For decades, he had many of the pop world’s best players on call — and knew how to coax out their sharpest performances.
The story of former Grimsby fish worker turned music producer, Rod Temperton.
President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Oprah Winfrey and Paul McCartney are among those mourning the death of ...
Quincy Jones worked with Michael Jackson on three of his albums. The pair had an incredibly successful working relationship, and Jones described Jackson as his brother following the latter’s death.
Frank Sinatra and Quincy Jones at the 21st Annual Scopus Awards on Jan. 13, 1991. Of his collaborator, Jones said: “He makes everything fit.” ...
The 1994 movie Forrest Gump starred Tom Hanks as a man who randomly encounters legendary figures from 20th-century history: Elvis, John F Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Abbie Hoffman, John Lennon and ...
Quincy Jones, the multitalented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson’s historic “Thriller” album to writing prize-winning film and television scores and collaborating ...